Pocketed carrier



F. R. BATCHELDER.

POCKETED CARRIER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT- 25. 1918.

1,340, 141. Patented May 18, 1920.

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POGKETED CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 18, 1920,

Application filed September 25, 1918. Serial No; 255,563.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK R. BATCHEL- DER, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vorcester, in the county of lVorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pocketed Carriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention has relation in general to pocketed carriers on the order of those which are used for holding and carrying cartridges, )ackaged first-aid supplies, etc. Among the pocketed carriers to which the invention is applicable are comprised cartridgecarriers, hospital corps belts, medical ol'licers belts, and others having various special adaptations.

The pockets of woven carriers as ordinarily produced taper and diminish in size toward their closed bottoms, so that their lower portions are of less internal capacity than the upper portions. This is unavoidable when the pockets are woven according to usual methods. It is a more or less inconvenient drawback in many cases, and prevents the employment of the pockets for various important purposes. So, also, when the pockets are constructed with internal reinforcements or linings extending part way up the front walls thereof, such reinforcements or linings reduce the internal capacity of the lower portions of the pockets as compared with that of the upper portions. With the reduction due to the reinforcements or linings added to the contraction of the lower portionsof the pockets, a material difference in internal capacity exists between the upper and lower portions of the pockets.

The object of the invention is to avoid the foregoing drawback.

The invention provides pockets having increased internal capacity in their bottom portions.

Embodiments of the features of the invention are illustrated in the drawings, in which latter,-

Figure 1 is an isometric of a portion of a pocketed carrier having pockets embodying the invention, one of such pockets being presented in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is an isometric of a single pocket which is shown in vertical section and without its cover-flap, this view illustrating the infold of the pocket-bottom.

Figs. 3 and 1 are diagrams illustrating one mode of weaving the pockets of Figs. 1 and 2.

Having reference to the drawings,

Fig. 1 shows a portion of a multiplepocketed carrier. The invention may be utilized in the manufacture of carriers having in their finished state a series of pockets connected together as in Fig. 1, or in that of those having or consisting of individual pockets. As produced in a loom the pockets 1, 1, are woven side by side as portions of a continuous carrier-web, they being joined together in the said web by band-portions 2, 2, whi'chare formed intermediate and at opposite ,sidesof the respective pockets. After theweaving of the carrier-web, it is divided up by cutting across the same through the said band-portions 2, 2, into sections comprising respectively the required number of pockets. Cover-flaps on the order of those represented at 41, 4:, Fig. 1, customarily are provided in connection with the pockets. The upper end of the righthand cover-flap in Fig. 1 is represented as broken away, for want of space in which to show the same.

The pockets of carriers are reinforced interiorly in various ways in practice to enable them to withstand better the wear due to their contents. Reinforcement is essential in the case of cartridge-carriers, especially. Fig. 1 shows a well-known mode of reinforcing in which a downward prolongation of the cover-flap lines the back and bottom of the pocket, and the lower part of the upright portion of the pouch thereof.

llhe gist of the invention consists in avoiding the fault aforesaid, namely, smaller internal capacity of the lower portion of the pouch of a carrier-pocket as compared with that of the upper portion thereof, by giving the said lower portion relatively increased dimensions in weaving the pouch. Figs. 1 and 2 show the pockets, which are woven seamless according to methods of well-known general characters, as woven larger in horizontal cross-section in their lower portions 1 1, than above the said portions. Thus the said increase of capacity is secured, and when a pocket is furnished with a reinforcement or lining the upright portion of the latter, in this instance the upturn 4! of the lining, is accommodated without reduction of the containing capacity of the lower portion of a pocket below that of the upper portion of the pocket.

The invention may be embodied in the pockets of carrier-webs in various ways involving in substancethe formation of the pouches of said pockets of downwardly di vergent weave. The drawings illustrate one convenient and practicable way, it consisting in incorporating additional picks of weft in the lower portion of the pouch of a pocket, so that the length or measurement of said portion of the pouch from the pocket-back horizontally around the sidewalls and front wall of the pouch to the pocket-back again will be greater in the said lower portionthan in the case of the upper portion or the pocket. These additional picks are indicated at a, a, in Figs. 3 andet. Fig. 3 is a diagram of open or skeleton character showing side by side the wetting of the pocket at different points in a pocket. It shows the four diiierent arrangements of picks that are utilized at (liil'erent points in Fig. l. The warpthreads which in the actual pocket are interwoven with the weft or filling are not shown. In Fig. 3, the approximately vertical position of the pocket-back, the approximately horizontal position of the pocket bottom, the general character of the fold in which it is woven, and the vertical position oi? the wall oi the pouch, are indicated. In such figure, also, the pouch-wall and back are shown somewhat widely separated from each other, with the bottom-told flattened nearly down, and the successive picks of weft are shown separated widely, in order to indicate the general plan of the wetting more clearly. In Fig. at all the picks of weft are developed in one plane.

A sufiicient number of the additional picks, a, a, is incorporated in the lower portion of the pouch to give the desired result. It will be apparent that the incor poration of the said additional picks in the said portion will render the length of the latter around the sides and front of the pouch greater than the length around the upper portion 01 the pouch.

The invention is shown embodied in a pocket having abottom woven of bellowsbottom formation, the intold of which is indicated in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, but is flattened out in Fig. 1. This form of bottom permits the bottom of the pocket to spread forward away from the pocket-back.

Referring to the wetting in general, the

back, in order to give the required bulge and fullness to the pouch. The preponder ance is indicated in Figs. 8 and 4. As has been stated, the short picks a, a, occupying only the lower nortion of the pouch-= wall are added in conformity with the in- 'ention. The front side of the bottom told contains usually a less number of picks (Z, d, or weft than the pouch-wall, as indicated, and the rear side of said fold contains new ally a smaller number of picks e, e, than the said front side, as indicated. By way of suitably proportioning the pocket-bottom to the relatively-mereased dimensions of the lower portion of the pouch, I incorporate additional picks (1, (l, at suitable intervals in the front side of the bottom-told, and additional picks e at suitable intervals in the rear side of the said fold.

The invention is not necessarily restricted to the herein described mode oi securing the downwardly-divergent weave of the pouchwall.

lVh-at is claimed as the invention is i. A lined woven carrier-pocket having the portion thereof which is occupied by the upturn of the lining relatively larger horizontally than the portion not thus occupied.

2. A woven carrier-pocket having the bottom and lower portion of its front reinforced, and also having the said portion larger than. the portion above it, to accommediate the upright portion of the reinforcewent without reduction of the containing capacity of the said lower portion.

3. A pocketed carrier comprising a belt portion, and a plurality of seamless carrierpockets, each of said pockets having the upright portion thereof woven larger in horizontal cross-section in its lower portion than above the said portion.

A. pocketed carrier comprising a belt portion, and a plurality of pockets, each of said pockets having the vertical portion of the pouch thereof of downwardly divergent weave whereby increase oi? capacity in the lower portion of the said pouch is attained.

in testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

v FRANK R. BATCI-IELDER.

lVitnesses ALICE M. TIsDALn,

A. Lonarra MATTIMORE. 

